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March 21, 2012

Republicans Vote Down Initiative to Create Jobs for Returning Veterans

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur offered an amendment today in the House Budget Committee's mark up of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Resolution.


February 23, 2012

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur welcomed the release today by the Obama Administration of the 2012 Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework.

February 15, 2012

Today Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur urged President Barack Obama to conduct negotiations with the new Libyan government and the Israeli government to provide compensation to the victims of the Munich massacre at the Olympic Games in 1972.

Ohioan David Berger was one of the 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team that were killed by the terrorist group, the Black September Organization.


February 10, 2012
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur today announced the extension restoration of over $2 million in federal funding for the City of Cleveland to use for the removal of hazardous lead from area homes contingent on the City meeting certain obligations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"The restoration of eligibility for this critical federal funding is great news for the City of Cleveland


February 9, 2012

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur met with senior leadership of the Ohio National Guard and members of the Ohio Congressional Delegation at a briefing on Ohio's response to a possible Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC).

Kaptur discussed ways in which the National Guard and the Ohio Delegation and can work together to protect jobs and military instillations in the region.


February 8, 2012
Congresswoman Kaptur met with researchers from the Cleveland Clinic to discuss the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) program that was created by the Department of Defense. The institute works on developing clinical treatments for soldiers and veterans suffering from traumatic injuries.

February 3, 2012
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, met with Eugenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of the former prime minister of Ukraine after she testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the politically motivated persecution of her mother, Yulia Tymoshenko.

Kaptur and Eugenia Tymoshenko spoke at length about the former prime minister's detenti


February 3, 2012
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur recognized Catholic Schools Week this week, celebrated from January 29 through February 4, 2012.

February 3, 2012
This week, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur observed the third anniversary of the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill signed into law by President Obama championing the principle of equal pay for women.

"As the longest-serving woman in the U.S.